I've always assumed that nitpicking was just finding minor complaints which really don't effect the main piece of 'x' much and it's just complaining for the sake of it. However I've noticed a few things that come to conflict with that. Apparently saying that a song's lyrics are bad would be nitpicking, or saying the scenery of a film is misused is nitpicking, or saying that a game's combat system is incredibly flawed/buggy is nitpicking. That seems a bit odd to me, a 'standard' song is made up of three or four major things (music/production, lyrics, vocals and occasionally meaning). A film has to use scenery to create an atmosphere because otherwise it just seems silly considering the subject matter of the dialogue and what not. A game's combat system (assuming that it's a game with lots of combat) will be something that will irritate the user throughout the game, so it's not like it's a small thing.
So what is nitpicking exactly? Because judging on some opinions like above that I keep stumbling into it seems to be complaining about only one part of something regardless of size which, as I've said before, seems silly to me.
So what is nitpicking exactly? Because judging on some opinions like above that I keep stumbling into it seems to be complaining about only one part of something regardless of size which, as I've said before, seems silly to me.